Toe-weight



(No Model.) G. E. TWAMBLEY.

' TOE WEIGHT. No. 257,907. Patented May 16, 1882,

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, UNITED STATES GEORGE E. TWAMBLEY, OF SAGO, MAINE.

PATENT OFFICE.

TOE-WEIGHT.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 257,907, dated May 16, 1882.

Application filed December 5, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE E. TWAMBLEY, of Saco, in the county of York and State of Maine, have invented new and useful Improvein the' accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view showing my toe-weight as attached to the hoof. Fig. 2 shows a part of the shoe and the bent fork and catch-spring which I use for attaching the toe-weight proper. Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the hoof, the toe-weight, and the attaching device.

The toe-Weight-B, Figs. 1 and 3, may be made of any desirable shape and weight. The hoof side, being concaved to fit the hoof, is providedwith a dovetail-shaped longitudinal groove, into which fits the upper part of the fastening-piece D D This fastening-piece D D is also provided with a longitudinal groove at D Fig. 2, this groove D serving to give place for the lateh-sprin g H, Figs. 2 and 3.

D D are prongs extending horizontally from the lower end of the fastening-piece D, and are to be inserted between the hoof A and shoe (3. (See Fig. 3.)

0, Figs. 1, 2, and 3, is a projection arising from the upper surface of the front part of the shoe, and has an inwardly-projecting lip, 0, Figs. 2 and 3.

H, Fig. 2, is a spring having a catch at each end, (see h h.)

To attach my device I first place the fastening-pieee D D in position, as indicated in Fig. 7

3. Then the spring H is placed on the slot D with its lower catch, h, engaged with the lip 0. Then the upper part of this spring is bent back toward the hoof and the weight B is slipped downward onto the holder D, which, being dovetail in shape, holds it-froin coming oft laterally, while the catch it of the spring H catches it at the upper end and prevents it from slipping ofl' in that direction.

When desirable to remove the toe-weights the upper end of the spring H may be bent back and the weight B be slipped up and off from the part D; then the spring H and the parts D are free to be removed. a

In a toe-weight, the combination of the shoe 0, provided with the projection c, with the holding-piece D D latch-sprin g H, and weight B, all operating together substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

GEORGE E. TWAMBLEY.

Witnesses:

W. M. PIKE, G. A. ALLEN. 

